John, that would of made me laugh my ass off. But it probably would of made Matt remove my link from his blog and run away to get a restraining order, so it's probably for the best.

Nathan, I'm going to e:mail Scalzi the picture of him with the UCF. If he chooses to post, then swell. But again...don't want a restraining order. But for the record, he knows who we are from the "e." He just couldn't remember our initials. So that's pretty stalkerific without being hauled off to the pokey.

Considering that Scalzi has a dozen different sophisticated ego-searches on his name going at all times, I'd assume he's run into every single conversation we've ever had anywhere where he was mentioned.

MWT, the talk centered around evolution, and one of the panelist made a couple of unsubstantiated claims. Robert Sawyer, who was moderating, confronted him in a "defend your position!" kind of way, which obviously made the guy a bit uncomfortable.

Well, it's pretty indefensible. Just because birds share a common lineage with dinosaurs does not mean that there must have been marshmallow Peeposaurs during the late Jurassic. It's a ridiculous logical leap and a claim that shouldn't be made unless you have some kind of fossil evidence--which is obviously unlikely, since Peeps have practically no hard tissue that would mineralize (ergo, any hypothetical Peeposaur would also lack hard tissue formations).

(Hey, since I'm not in Denver, I'll just have to use my imagination as far as what the confrontation was about. And honestly, whatever the argument was really about, I'm pretty sure I'll still like my version better; it has Peeps....)

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